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Poems for Your Pocket Print

Celebrate Poem In Your Pocket Day with pocket-sized poem PDFs. Click a pocket below to download and print poems to share with others on April 14, 2011.

Pocket Poem Anthologies

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Poem in Your Pocket for Young Poets: 100 Poems to Rip Out & Read Poem in Your Pocket for Young Poets: 100 Poems to Rip Out & Read

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Poem in Your Pocket: 200 Poems to Read and Carry Poem in Your Pocket: 200 Poems to Read and Carry

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More Poems for Pockets

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By Occasion: Browse poems by occasion and topic, including poems about love, family, friends, and more.
Regional Interest: Visit your state's poetry homepage to read poems about your community, as well as the most popular poems among visitors near you.
Life Lines: Read the lines our readers carry with them and why.
New Spring Books: Read new poems by sampling books of poetry available this spring.
Must Reads: Browse popular classic and modern poems, as well as the newest poems added to Poets.org.
Browse PDFs by Poet and Title

William Blake
The Question Answer'd

Adelaide Crapsey
The Sun-Dial

Emily Dickinson
I'm Nobody! Who are you? (260)
The Outlet (162)
Wild Nights – Wild Nights! (249)

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Oread

Paul Laurence Dunbar
A Negro Love Song

T. S. Eliot
Morning at the Window

Eliza Lee Follen
The Good Moolly Cow

Robert Frost
Design
The Lockless Door
The Pasture

Marsden Hartley
Fishmonger

Gerard Manley Hopkins
As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame

A. E. Housman
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder?

Rudyard Kipling
You mustn't swim till your six weeks old

Alfred Kreymborg
The Tree

D. H. Lawrence
The North Country

Emma Lazarus
Long Island Sound

Vachel Lindsay
Here's To the Mice!

Mina Loy
from Songs for Joannes

Claude McKay
America
The Tropics of New York

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Afternoon on a Hill
Exiled

Marianne Moore
The Fish

Wilfred Owen
Anthem for Doomed Youth

Edgar Allan Poe
El Dorado

Ezra Pound
The Return

Laura Elizabeth Richards
Eletelephony

Edwin Arlington Robinson
Dear Friends
Richard Cory

Christina Rossetti
from Monna Innominata
[Many in aftertimes will say of you]


Carl Sandburg
Back Yard
Window

William Shakespeare
From you have I been absent in the spring... (Sonnet 98)
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Sonnet 18)
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130)

Shel Silverstein
If the World Was Crazy
Where the Sidewalk Ends

Gertrude Stein
from Tender Buttons [Objects]

Wallace Stevens
The Emperor of Ice Cream

Sara Teasdale
Barter
I Am Not Yours

Jean Toomer
Storm Ending

Walt Whitman
A noiseless patient spider
As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
Miracles
O Me! O Life!
from The Indications

William Carlos Williams
Peace on Earth

W. B. Yeats
Byzantium

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